On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 08:09:57 -0500
"Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sunday 08 February 2004 02:45 am, Guy Rouillier wrote:
> ->I just got a new laptop that has no floppy.  With both Mandrake 9.2
> ->32-bit and the AMD64 beta, every time they boot they print out an
> insmod->error during "checking for new hardware" because the box has
> no floppy->disk drive.  Everything appears to work fine, so the
> message is just->a minor irritation.  How can I tell the kernel not to
> look for a floppy->during bootup? The only mention I could find of a
> floppy in startup->config files was ide-floppy in devfsd(not booted at
> the moment, I think->that was it.) Can I simply remove that? Thanks.
> 
> If you've got everything else going the way that you want, why not
> just turn harddrake off under MCC -> services so it won't even check
> for new hardware?

I plug in a USB mouse and compact flash into the built-in memory card
reader.  If I don't leave harddrake active, those are not detected.  I
have done that on other installations though.  Thanks for the idea.

> 
> (just don't forget to turn it back on if you do add new hardware)
> 
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